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A list of UK LGBTQ+ bookshops:
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PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini 🗝️📚
📕 Pub. Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
📚 MANCHESTER BOOK LAUNCH
📍 Manchester Museum
📅Dec 3, 2025
Link below 👇🧵
Ed. Basma Ghalayini 🗝️📚
📕 Pub. Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
📚 MANCHESTER BOOK LAUNCH
📍 Manchester Museum
📅Dec 3, 2025
Link below 👇🧵
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini 🗝️📚
📕 Pub. Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
📚 MANCHESTER BOOK LAUNCH
📍 Manchester Museum
📅Dec 3, 2025
Link below 👇🧵
Ed. Basma Ghalayini 🗝️📚
📕 Pub. Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
📚 MANCHESTER BOOK LAUNCH
📍 Manchester Museum
📅Dec 3, 2025
Link below 👇🧵
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Our new issue is out now! Grab single issues here: https://bit.ly/484Awe6
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Our new issue is out now! Grab single issues here: https://bit.ly/484Awe6
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A big welcome to the UK National Archives' Sector Leadership team - great to see you here on Bluesky!
Hi there! We’re the Archive Sector Leadership team at The National Archives UK.
We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A big welcome to the UK National Archives' Sector Leadership team - great to see you here on Bluesky!
Has anyone read/would recommend any of these:
Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (author), Martin Aitken (translator)
I have book vouchers burning a hole in my pocket
Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (author), Martin Aitken (translator)
I have book vouchers burning a hole in my pocket
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Has anyone read/would recommend any of these:
Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (author), Martin Aitken (translator)
I have book vouchers burning a hole in my pocket
Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (author), Martin Aitken (translator)
I have book vouchers burning a hole in my pocket
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Anyone remember The Hogarth Shakespeare, a hugely ambitious project announced in 2013 where contemporary authors wrote versions of all of Shakespeare plays, inc Atwood, St Aubyn, Winterson etc - and then it fizzled out after half a dozen?
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Anyone remember The Hogarth Shakespeare, a hugely ambitious project announced in 2013 where contemporary authors wrote versions of all of Shakespeare plays, inc Atwood, St Aubyn, Winterson etc - and then it fizzled out after half a dozen?
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
Trying to settle into an own-voice m/m romance story, and so far I’m on my third try of the day. I think they’ve all been enemies to lovers, and it’s annoying me. Looking for a Matt Peters equivalent, as his rugby ones were great.
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Trying to settle into an own-voice m/m romance story, and so far I’m on my third try of the day. I think they’ve all been enemies to lovers, and it’s annoying me. Looking for a Matt Peters equivalent, as his rugby ones were great.
This week's Sunday Summary is up. It contains:
18 books coming out this week-ish
13 books that others have tempted me with
Praise for @danhartland.bsky.social's post of The Booker
What's been tempting @runalongwomble.bsky.social
And two excellent covers I've seen this week.
18 books coming out this week-ish
13 books that others have tempted me with
Praise for @danhartland.bsky.social's post of The Booker
What's been tempting @runalongwomble.bsky.social
And two excellent covers I've seen this week.
Sunday Summary: 9 Nov 25
Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system. B…
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November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This week's Sunday Summary is up. It contains:
18 books coming out this week-ish
13 books that others have tempted me with
Praise for @danhartland.bsky.social's post of The Booker
What's been tempting @runalongwomble.bsky.social
And two excellent covers I've seen this week.
18 books coming out this week-ish
13 books that others have tempted me with
Praise for @danhartland.bsky.social's post of The Booker
What's been tempting @runalongwomble.bsky.social
And two excellent covers I've seen this week.
I got very excited by a romantasy, cringed through the first point of view in the first chapter, and read the first paragraph of the second point of view and said out loud, ‘Absolutely not’.
a bald man in a denim shirt is saying absolutely not
Alt: a bald man in a denim shirt is saying absolutely not
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November 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I got very excited by a romantasy, cringed through the first point of view in the first chapter, and read the first paragraph of the second point of view and said out loud, ‘Absolutely not’.
Has anyone heard anything about Coldwire?
New books! New books! 💙📚🪐
All released today:
The War Beyond by @andreagstewart.bsky.social,
Coldwire by Chloe Gong,
Empire of the Dawn by @misterkristoff.bsky.social,
The Tower of the Tyrant by @jeremyteg.bsky.social,
As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel,
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All released today:
The War Beyond by @andreagstewart.bsky.social,
Coldwire by Chloe Gong,
Empire of the Dawn by @misterkristoff.bsky.social,
The Tower of the Tyrant by @jeremyteg.bsky.social,
As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel,
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November 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Has anyone heard anything about Coldwire?
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New books! New books! 💙📚🪐
All released today:
The War Beyond by @andreagstewart.bsky.social,
Coldwire by Chloe Gong,
Empire of the Dawn by @misterkristoff.bsky.social,
The Tower of the Tyrant by @jeremyteg.bsky.social,
As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel,
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All released today:
The War Beyond by @andreagstewart.bsky.social,
Coldwire by Chloe Gong,
Empire of the Dawn by @misterkristoff.bsky.social,
The Tower of the Tyrant by @jeremyteg.bsky.social,
As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel,
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November 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New books! New books! 💙📚🪐
All released today:
The War Beyond by @andreagstewart.bsky.social,
Coldwire by Chloe Gong,
Empire of the Dawn by @misterkristoff.bsky.social,
The Tower of the Tyrant by @jeremyteg.bsky.social,
As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel,
1/2
All released today:
The War Beyond by @andreagstewart.bsky.social,
Coldwire by Chloe Gong,
Empire of the Dawn by @misterkristoff.bsky.social,
The Tower of the Tyrant by @jeremyteg.bsky.social,
As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel,
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New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
For a novel first published in 1934, Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross feels remarkably timely, charting, as it does, the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, the falling apart of a country’s fundamental …
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
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Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
If you want to dig into the books in this year’s Booker, then this post is for you.
I read the Booker Prize shortlist (again). Rum do, this year - but not uninterestingly.
On the bourgeois novel:
On the bourgeois novel:
The Booker Prize 2025
Many awards shortlists make a statement. Whether by accident or design, the clutch of books from which a given work is granted a particular gong are to one extent clear about – or at least re…
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November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
If you want to dig into the books in this year’s Booker, then this post is for you.
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I’m working on my Sunday Summary blog post, and I’ve got 13 books listed that I’ve been tempted by from various creators on Blusky, Instagram, and TikTok. I am very grateful to everyone who takes the time to share what they’ve loved.
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I’m working on my Sunday Summary blog post, and I’ve got 13 books listed that I’ve been tempted by from various creators on Blusky, Instagram, and TikTok. I am very grateful to everyone who takes the time to share what they’ve loved.
This sounds crazy bonkers, and so much fun.
And #Bookpost from me to me the last of the new Absinthe novellas is Mirror Marked by Vida Cruz-Borja
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This sounds crazy bonkers, and so much fun.
I might make 2026 The Year of T. Kingfisher. I have so many of their back catalogue titles to read that I'll turn it into a challenge/celebration.
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I might make 2026 The Year of T. Kingfisher. I have so many of their back catalogue titles to read that I'll turn it into a challenge/celebration.
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The saddest book is when you know it’s the last one an author ever wrote. The last Merrily Watkins take The Echo of Crows by Phil Rickman
November 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The saddest book is when you know it’s the last one an author ever wrote. The last Merrily Watkins take The Echo of Crows by Phil Rickman
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COVER REVEAL! My short story collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING will be reissued by the marvellous CLASH Books next April with this tasty new cover. I've also added two new stories, one previously unpublished - what more can you ask? ARCs are available now from NetGalley, or drop me a line!
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
COVER REVEAL! My short story collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING will be reissued by the marvellous CLASH Books next April with this tasty new cover. I've also added two new stories, one previously unpublished - what more can you ask? ARCs are available now from NetGalley, or drop me a line!
Two of these I've not heard of, but I feel that @chloroformtea.bsky.social @niallharrison.bsky.social would have - and two are on my desk.
Some tempting books www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
There Is no Antimemetics Division by qntm; The Merge by Grace Walker; Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel; Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin; The Strength of the Few by James Islington
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Two of these I've not heard of, but I feel that @chloroformtea.bsky.social @niallharrison.bsky.social would have - and two are on my desk.
I can't decide between The Samurai Detectives and Eurotrash.
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I can't decide between The Samurai Detectives and Eurotrash.
I am very curious to see how Dorothy tackles this!
The second Dorothy Gentleman novella is out in March, but you can pre-order now! NOBODY’S BABY is a sapphic sci-fi mystery kicked off with one bone-chilling sentence: A wild baby appears!
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Nobody's Baby
Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective.Welcome to ...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I am very curious to see how Dorothy tackles this!
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Hello Evening crowd this excellent novel which has digital ghosts, magic and a cat is out now in paperback All The Ghosts In The Forest by Lorraine Wilson www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/12...
We Are All Ghosts In The Forest by Lorraine Wilson — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Solaris for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher - Solaris Published - Out Now Price - £18.99 hardback £7.99 Kindle eBook ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Hello Evening crowd this excellent novel which has digital ghosts, magic and a cat is out now in paperback All The Ghosts In The Forest by Lorraine Wilson www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/12...
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Our very own Trip Galey has an EXTRA special announcement!!
A MARKET OF DREAMS AND DESTINY is getting a LIMITED EDITION *beautifully* blinged-out HARDCOVER print run!
Only 1000 will be sold! £35 PreOrders LIVE
So if queer boys fighting systemic oppression with fey magic and contractual loopholes is your thing, check out...
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Only 1000 will be sold! £35 PreOrders LIVE
So if queer boys fighting systemic oppression with fey magic and contractual loopholes is your thing, check out...
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A Market of Dreams and Destiny Signed Special Edition - PREORDER
The Untermarkt is calling you, now join Deri and his adventure in LitPins&Co's special edition of A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey!
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November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Our very own Trip Galey has an EXTRA special announcement!!